He tells them they are a covenant people. “And I will walk
among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people” (Leviticus 26:12).
He will “make thy horn iron, and [He] will make thy hoofs
brass” (3 Nephi 20:19). “Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make
thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces
many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their
substance unto the Lord of the whole earth” (Micah 4:13).
His sword of justice will hang over His people at the last
day. Unless they repent, the sword will fall on the Gentiles’ nations. “And
when the day cometh that the wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of
harlots, which is the great and abominable church of all the earth, whose
founder is the devil, then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence,
in preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants, which he hath made to
his people who are of the house of Israel” (1 Nephi 14:17).
It is then He will establish His people, the house of Israel
and fulfill the covenants made with Jacob.
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a
well; whose branches run over the wall:
“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him:
“But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel: [IE It is from the lineage of Jacob the Messiah
comes])
“Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of
the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
“The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills:
they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that
was separate from his brethren” (Genesis 29:22-26).
Here on this land will be a New Jerusalem.
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go
forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.
“O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of
the Lord” (Isaiah 2:2-5).
“Yea, the word of the Lord concerning his church, established
in the last days for the restoration of his people, as he has spoken by the
mouth of his prophets, and for the gathering of his saints to stand upon Mount
Zion, which shall be the city of New Jerusalem.
“Which city shall be built, beginning at the temple lot,
which is appointed by the finger of the Lord, in the western boundaries of the
State of Missouri, and dedicated by the hand of Joseph Smith, Jun., and others
with whom the Lord was well pleased.
“Verily this is the word of the Lord, that the city New
Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of the saints, beginning at this
place, even the place of the temple, which temple shall be reared in this
generation” (D&C 84:2-4).
The powers of heaven will be among this people and He will
be among them.
“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that
turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
“As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;
My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall
not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever” (Isaiah
21:20-21).
He told them He was the prophet about whom Moses spoke.
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
“According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in
Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of
the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
“And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which
they have spoken.
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren,
like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him.
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken
unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him” (Deuteronomy
18:15-19).
“For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the
Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye
hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
“And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not
hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people” (Acts 2:22-23).
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